Former Sweetwater police officer Manuel Pardo Jr. is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11 for killing nine people in 1986.

Amanda Marsh and Perry Buesking are accused of going out for drinks and abandoning her kids; and then when confronted, Marsh allegedly denied that the two young boys were hers.

Gregory Dawson is accused of forcing a 17-year-old grocery bagger at Publix to hug him.

Artavious Malone is accused of firing four shots at his dad after the two bumped into each other at a liquor store.

Kenneth Blevin and his teen brother are accused of committing armed robberies in Delray Beach using a replica handgun.

John Stabile told deputies he needed to be locked up or he'll kill again, according to a sheriff's office report.

Thermon Gay was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his wife, Dorothy, in October 1997.

David Brownell is accused of faking illness to collect more than $2.7 million in fraudulent workers' compensation claims.

Bruce Knapp is accused of robbing a couple at Paul's Motel in Greenacres.

Chester Price was arrested Nov. 29, 2012, in connection with the disappearance and death of Andrea Parsons.

Former South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar is accused of punching a woman in the face and pulling her hair.

Elementary school teacher Alison Workman is accused of grabbing several students, including a 4-year-old girl.

Michael Venditto is accused of having sex with a teenage cheerleader who was on a team he coached.

Daniel Wyatt was arrested on charges of sale and possession of cocaine

Scott Jensen is accused of shooting Muscovy ducks at a lake at the Delray Beach apartment complex where he is maintenance supervisor.

Mellody Wright faces multiple charges after police said she was pulled over and her baby was in the back seat with vodka and a marijuana grinder.

Miami Dolphin Jonathon Amaya was arrested and accused of trying to choke a taxi driver.

Stephen Bates was arrested after deputies said he threatened his neighbor with a chain saw.

Sheree Peters is accused of killing her husband in their central Florida home, then living in the house with his dead body for two weeks.

John Collazos was arrested in Hollywood this week after being accused of impersonating a dentist.

Cid Torrez was charged with murder about eight months after his wife was last seen.

Domonque Allen was arrested after deputies said he entered a woman's home, stood over her while she slept and then tried to pull her back inside when she tried to escape.

Alberto Sierra is accused of suffocating his estranged wife and stepchildren.

Keith Lee admitted to breaking into a woman's car and stealing her credit cards, among other items, police in Port St. Lucie said.

Keith Kirk stole a bike, then traded it in for an embarrassing beating at the hands of its owner, police in Fort Lauderdale said on Nov. 16.

Ronald Rokoff was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault Nov. 13, 2012.

Jose Alfaro was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Stephen Febonio, whose body was found in a freezer buried in a back yard.

Joseph Nemet is accused of scamming an elderly Boynton Beach woman out of about $26,000 for a construction project he started but never completed.

Waldemar DeJesus is accused of dropping his pants and masturbating in the presence of elementary-school students.

Marco Bartolon-Velasquez is accused of hiding a camera in a JCPenney women's restroom.

Anthony Mangione was sentenced to 70 months in prison on a federal child pornography charge.

Enrique "Rick" Cuebas is accused of sexually abusing at least five children at a Florida daycare facility.

Darryl Blue is accused of abusing an Autistic student on a school bus in Broward County.

Amie Neely was arrested in November after her husband allegedly found her having sex in the couple's car with the teenage exchange student who lived with them. Read more about this bizarre story right here.

Deputies say Bernard Lewis had marijuana, cocaine and other drugs stuffed in his sweatshirt after being stopped for riding his bicycle without proper lighting.

Wilfredo Rodriguez faces multiple charges in connection with a bizarre arrest in Port St. Lucie.

Gerald Destorel is accused of fondling himself outside another teacher's classroom.

Jon Good was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Charlene Nelson.

Lantana police Chief Jeffrey Tyson has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Patrick Burt is accused of going to great lengths to stalk his ex-girlfriend.

Police in Port St. Lucie said Michael Cabral walked in with pot plants and turned himself in "to do the right thing."

Eugene Ward is accused of shooting at two St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies.

Miami Dolphins linebacker Koa Misi was arrested on a warrant from California.

Jakeva Robinson is accused of stealing a gold chain off an elderly woman as the woman was gardening.

Six months to the day after a teenager was killed in a fatal crash in Palm Beach Gardens, prosecutors on March 28 filed charges against the driver, Sabrina Fiorentino.

Demetrius Flowers was arrested after a drive-by shooting in Belle Glade on March 29.

Police in Sebastian said Kelvin James nearly beat his former neighbor to death.

Elliot McCormack was arrested in Port St. Lucie, where police say he attacked his own grandmother while burglarizing her home.

Chartlotte Harper, George Brazill and Candace Smith were arrested on March 27 after a high-speed chase with police that started in Palm Beach County and ended in St. Lucie County. Read more here

A Stuart woman named Arnetha McIntyre. who police say admitted to fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend. was arrested on March 27. Read more here

An 18-year-old man named Dallas Parker is accused of setting fire to a mobile home in Okeechobee is considered the prime suspect in several other fires, authorities said on March 28. Read more here

A former middle school band director named Heath Miller will spend 13 years in prison for engaging in sexual activity with four students in 2009. Read more here

A Georgia man was arrested on March 21 after police said he slashed another man's neck during a burglary and rode off on a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Read more here

A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office lieutenant named Dean Johnson is accused of leaking confidential information about a criminal investigation into a former deputy.Read more here

A man wanted as an accomplice in the rape of a South Florida woman was arrested after a family member turned him in. Read more here

Tysheka Pink and Katina Summerset were arrested on Feb. 29 on grand theft charges. They were taken into custody at the Town Center at Boca Raton, accused of stealing $4,500 worth of bras. Read more here

Michael Conley, left, and Michael Hughes were charged on Feb. 27 with reporting a hoax weapon of mass destruction after a SWAT standoff at a Fort Pierce motel. Read more here

A Georgia woman named Marsha Foster is accused of scamming several Port St. Lucie businesses by claiming to solicit donations for the United Way to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of St. Lucie County. Read more here

Kenalta Clark was arrested on Feb. 26 after her two small children were found home alone when firefighters arrived there to put out a fire. Read more here

William Brezinski, accused of committing sexual acts on a 15-month-old girl, said he's been downloading child pornography since he was 10 years old, authorities said on Feb. 24. Read more here

A Vero Beach man named Andrew Brown was arrested after he stole an award-winning goat, killed the animal and sold its meat, an Indian River County Sheriff's Office report said on Feb. 23. Read more here

A Vero Beach woman named Jeanne Buday was arrested on Feb. 21 on theft charges, accused of stealing about $80,000 worth of items from her neighbor while she was out of town. Read more here

Authorities said Florida State football tailback James Wilder Jr. was arrested after a confrontation with a sheriff's deputy on Feb. 21. Read more here

Jean Sejour was arrested on Feb. 18 after he followed a 19-year-old woman from the gym and raped her, police said. Read more here

A man named Ralph Ferretti was issued a speeding ticket on Feb. 18, then promptly went to the home of the officer who pulled him over to tell his wife he wanted to talk to him "man to man," according to a report. Read more here

A robbery suspect named Sean Phelps was arrested on Feb. 21 after the getaway car he was in got a flat tire, police said. Read more here

Police said Sherman Griffin and Lenard Newsome were arrested following a standoff in Delray Beach after they robbed three others during a drug deal in Boynton Beach on Feb. 21. Read more here

A fast-food order apparently wasn't fast enough for a Tampa-area woman named Jennifer Betterly. Read more here

A caretaker named Maria Holly left a 95-year-old woman in a car for almost two hours while she went gambling in a South Florida casino, police said. Read more here

Bradley Goodson was arrested on Feb. 18 after allegedly taking his 17-month-old daughter from his mother in Oklahoma. Goodson was on the run with the toddler for two weeks before authorities took him into custody in the Village Boulevard area. Read more here

Ernest Brown, a former high school band director, accused of taking his family on a Paris band trip using school district money was indicted on Feb. 16. Read more here

Jose Lopez was arrested in connection with a double stabbing outside a Palm Springs night club in February 2012. Read more here

Informant tips led local authorities to Ramon Blair, and after an initial check for drugs on his person turned up little evidence, they said they ended up finding crack cocaine in a very unusual place. Read more here

Igor Ramos, seen on surveillance video stealing a Rolex from a security checkpoint at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, was caught wearing the pricey jewelry on his wrist, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Read more here

A Stuart man named Juan Cardenas was arrested on Feb. 17 after being accused of breaking into a woman's home and then raping her in her bed. Read more here

A 15-year-old boy named Frank Quarles was charged with murder Friday morning, a week after police said he shot and killed another teen in an argument over a bike. Read more here

A massage parlor worker named Yu Chun Jiang was waiting for a customer to return with a larger gratuity, but was instead greeted by a detective, prompting the Indian River sheriff to shut the business down. Read more here

Detectives in Ocala arrested a man named William LaRose this week, charging him with printing and possessing counterfeit money. Read more here

Police in Boca Raton said DNA evidence from a car led them to Reache Evans in connection with a September purse-snatching. Read more here

A driver named Francisco Jiron-Bracamonte was arrested after he ran over a homeless man who was sleeping under his truck, crushing the man's head. Read more here

Anna Burke told police she was "tricking" in a park restroom when Fort Pierce police confronted her and David Dixon on Valentine's Day, according to a report. Read more here

Gary Holmes was arrested on Feb. 12 after a South Florida mother managed to call 911 while she was being raped, beaten and choked. Read more here

Dontazius Willis was arrested after getting in a fight with his mother's 74-year-old boyfriend for not listening to the man's warnings to stay out of the refrigerator, police in Fort Pierce said. Read more here

William Romano was arrested after a nurse at a Treasure Coast hospital was beaten on Feb. 11, authorities in St. Lucie County said. Read more here

A South Florida man convicted of sexual battery in 1990 was committed after a Palm Beach County jury found him to be a sexually violent predator under the Jimmy Ryce Act. Read more about Blaine Panno

Indian River County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Walter Bainter on Feb. 9 in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Vero Beach man inside his home in January. Read more here

An Okeechobee man named John Morgan is accused of stealing more than $40,000 from his adult daughter's special needs trust fund, police said on Feb. 6. Read more here

Palena Dorsey, the executive director of Sanctuary Animal Refuge, was arrested in February 2012 in connection with the theft of funds. Read more here

Mandi Bowman was one of two people facing federal charges of sex trafficking after she and a man named Rashad Clark were arrested at a West Palm Beach hotel in early February. Read more here

A Port St. Lucie woman named Lovey Lakee Love was arrested on Feb. 7 after an officer said she blew through a school zone at 45 mph as children were in the intersection, then refused his 10 warnings to get back in her car. Read more here

A former Palm Beach Gardens police officer named Withfield Merrick will spend one year behind bars for a battery conviction. Read more here

A Jupiter teenager named Shanovia Mack (left) was convicted on Feb. 8 of killing her boyfriend.Her cousin, Adrian Hunter, also was convicted of third-degree murder. Read more here

A South Florida man named Felipe Altamirano was arrested on Feb. 7 after he attacked his much older wife because she was "giving him a hard time," according to an arrest report. Read more here

A man named Kenneth Chavelier is one of two people facing child neglect charges after they were found with a toddler whose burned right hand was missing one finger and had two more "partial" fingers. Read more here

Greg Cleaver and Anne Apostolides were arrested in Vero Beach after claiming the substance deputies found in a baggy in a safe under their kitchen sink was "shrooms," according to an Indian River County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit. Read more here

A man named Ronaldo Aubry was arrested on Jan. 31 and accused of faking his identity to pass a fraudulent check. Read more here

Lauren MacQueen, a former Boynton Beach elementary school bookkeeper named accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the school where she worked, pleaded guilty on Feb. 2. Read more here

An Orlando man named Joshua Cox was arrested in connection with the Jan. 30 fatal shooting of a Palm Beach Gardens High School graduate. Read more here

A Palm Springs public safety officer is accused of stealing more than $55,000 from a woman who won the money in a wrongful death lawsuit. Sean Grant was charged on Jan. 31. Read more here

Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for killing two clerks during an armed robbery at a Greenacres convenience store two years ago. Darnell Razz and Robert Alvarez will spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Read more here

Boynton Beach Mayor Jose Rodriguez was arrested on Jan. 26 on charges that he used his position to intimidate law enforcement to protect himself from a criminal abuse investigation. Read more here

A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office lieutenant named Daniel Burrows was arrested on Jan. 26 after being accused of stealing guns and prescription pills from a former co-worker. Read more here

Semie Robinson, accused of shooting a taxi cab driver in Pompano Beach, also has been linked to the fatal shooting of a man whose body was found outside his air conditioning business. Read more here

Christopher Gelinas, of Vero Beach, was arrested on Jan. 25 after being accused of stealing Dumpsters and selling them at a scrap yard. Read more here

A Broward County youth pastor named Jeffery London was arrested on Jan. 25 after being accused of molesting a child. Read more here

Danny Martin was arrested on Jan. 26, accused of beating his mother to death in her Pompano Beach apartment. Read more here

A Port St. Lucie woman and her boyfriend were arrested after their 3-year-old son was found wandering along a busy intersection Wednesday, police said. Kelly Jean, left, and Janine Francois face child-neglect charges. Read more here

Former Palm Beach County school district employee Delores Brown has confessed to stealing thousands of dollars worth of furniture from the district, police said. Read more here

A Florida man named Tyree Smith was arrested on Jan. 24 after he hacked a homeless Connecticut man to death and ate the victim's eye and part of his brain, police said. Read more here

Police have arrested a man accused of killing a common-law couple during a robbery at their home. Thomas Roberts was charged with murder and robbery in January after the deaths of Frank Houck and Irene Reiss. Read more here

Michael Washington pleaded guilty to beating his girlfriend after he suspected she was cheating on him, and was sentenced on Jan. 25 to 15 years in prison. Read more here

Lineten Belizaire was accused in January 2012 of shooting three people to death in Lauderdale Lakes: the mother of his child, her roommate, and the roommate's young child. Read more here

Police said they found 68 pounds of marijuana in the luggage of a Port St. Lucie woman named Veronica Johnson at a bus station in Kansas City, according to a report. Read the story

Alexander Roy, a teacher at Manatee Academy in Port St. Lucie, was among 40 men arrested in a sex sting conducted by officials in Osceola County on Jan. 17. Read the story

Police arrested Andrea Smith after they said she threw a knife at her husband after he said he wanted to divorce her, according to a report. Read more here

A chase between a police officer in his cruiser and two men -- Michael Biscardi III (left) and Jason Reynolds in a dune buggy ended in arrests in Boca Raton on Thursday night. Read more here

Michael Lohan's ex-girlfriend, Kate Major, found herself in trouble with the law again on Jan. 15. Read more here

A real-life Mommy-and-Clyde story unfolded in Tequesta in early January 2012. Read more here

Diane Prater was arrested in early January 2012 and accused of having sex with a teenage boy almost 20 times. Read more here

A pedestrian was killed and two others were injured when a motorist crashed into them and three parked cars outside of a West Palm Beach nightclub in early January 2012. Juan Martinez was arrested and accused of being drunk behind the wheel. Read more here

Janet Knowles struck her husband in the head with a hammer after she got upset while watching "Judge Judy," police in Jupiter said in January 2012. Read more here

Virgilio Rivera was jailed without bond in early January after a 10-year-old girl told deputies that he pulled her into some bushes and sexually assaulted her, WPBF 25 News has learned. Read more here

Vero Beach fugitive Paul Bryant was apprehended Wednesday by Indian River County Sheriff's Office deputies. Read more here

Victoria Hinchcliff was arrested after authorities on the Treasure Coast said her kids went to school wearing dirty clothes and no underwear and had dog bites on them. Read more here

A South Florida funeral home employee named Armando Sardina was accused of stealing cash from the home of a dead person whose body he was transporting. Read more here

A Florida child had to call a family friend to report her mother, Karin Reinhard, was "really drunk" at a Florida amusement park over the weekend, according to a report. Read more here

A Fort Pierce couple -- Benjamin and Elizabeth Yeary -- was arrested on child abuse charges after deputies found their children naked and covered in urine inside a home filled with trash and feces, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. Read more here

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